Deserts Without Mirages

The car is on fire and

there's no one at the wheel

And no one tries to

put on the brakes at all

We're trapped in the

belly of this sick machine

The radiator smoking,

there's no air to breathe

And no one tries to

put on the brakes at all One by one like stars

from the sky they fell

And everyone turned

their backs, wondering to themselves

I'm on a strange

journey I didn't choose to take

Where I'm going I

don't want to think

But no one tries to

put on the brakes at all Your final breath will

be an eastern wind

To blow through the

valley of death that we've carved in this land

We're accomplices all

It's all beyond our

control

We're so innocent when

the hammer falls

And nobody tries

Nobody tries

No one even fucking

tries!

Accelerating through

industrial haze

Past the death camps

and the marketplace we've lost our way

I hope we burn up in

the wreckage

Rather than live

another day

In vain in a world

without frontiers

We're served our just

desserts:

Just deserts, in

burning thirst

And no one tries to

put out the flames at all.